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waitsnounpl. of wait an instance or period of being prevented from going about one's businessthere was a long wait for the manager to come and help us delays, detainments, detentions, holdbacks, holding patterns, holdups deferments, deferrals, postponementsreprieves, respitesfoot-draggings, hesitations, lags, pauses, setbacks, slowdowns hastes, rushesdispatches, promptitudes to remain in place in readiness or expectation of somethingplease wait here, and we'll seat you shortly awaits, bides, holds on, stays hangs around, lingers, remains, sticks around, tarriesstands byanticipates, expects, watches (for) bides one's time, cools one's heels, holds one's breath, sits tight |